Re: GTK clipboard on OS X

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

> On 07/20/2009 02:48 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > I can report a bit more about GTK, RTF and the clipboard on OS X.
> > The main limitation on what I have to say is that I'm relying on
> > the "gtk2-framework" distribution prepared by I-don't-know-who,
> > available at http://r.research.att.com/ , which is a build
> > of GTK 2.14.3.  I'm not in a position to build current GTK on OS X
> > myself, which seems like serious rocket science.
>
> If you are after compiling against osx "frameworks" (instead of the GTK fink
> package, etc...) then I think you should try the official GTK-OSX download:
> http://www.gtk-osx.org
>
> It's the official *pre-compiled* framework, than you can use
> with something like:
>
> CFLAGS:
> -I/Library/Frameworks/Gtk.framework/Headers ...
>
> LIBS:
> -framework Gtk -framework GLib -framework Cairo -framework Carbon
>
> It's quite straightforward and removes the need for X11.

I've tried that build ("2.14 beta") and it looks quite promising,
but IMO it's still too flaky for production use.  The GTK/X11 dmg
that I mentioned is more stable, although the X11 dependence is
not desirable.

Allin Cottrell